A big thank-you to everyone who presented and participated in our 8th JASAL Student Conference on Saturday, December 7th! Although virtually it was so lovely to see so many students, and to hear many of their inspiring presentations about all the amazing projects they are involved in through their university SALCs across Japan and Canada.

We hope the participants of the conference enjoyed it as much as we organizers did. We had around 30 students presenting and taking part in discussions as well as more than 10 teachers and administrators to support and learn from these student-presenters and student-participants.

It was a wonderful event with many inspiring ideas shared among students and teachers! We, conference organizers, once again would like to say a huge thank-you to all the wonderful presenters who prepared very thoroughly and shared their SALC stories with all of us.

We wish all the best to all the conference participants in realizing their action plans drawn towards the end of the conference.

Hello! This autumn we asked all our members to re-register. The old list of members was retired on October 31st 2024, so if you have not re-registered you will no longer receive emails from JASAL. We don’t want to lose you, so please, please check your email inbox and click on the link to re-register. It takes under two minutes. (We sent a reminder last week!)

If you are unsure if you on the current list, please email us at jasalorg@gmail.com.

Thank you so much for helping us keep our list current.

Saturday 22nd October, 2022

Conference theme: Inclusion and Accessibility in Self-Access Language Learning

This year, JASAL’s national conference will focus on inclusion and accessibility in self-access language learning (SALL). We are delighted to invite members to join us (on-site or online) and our special plenary panel of guest speakers to explore these issues at our conference.

Just in case you haven’t seen it, a report on the JASAL Online Student Conference 2021 has been published in the current issue of SiSAL Journal. It is a good summary of the event if you missed it! We are looking forward to holding more student events this year.

JASAL Journal 2(2), edited by Naomi Fujishima and Garold Murray, has been published! It is a really full issue with a featured article, a research paper, a practice paper, conference reports, a panel discussion review, and a book review. There is so much to read over your winter holiday break. Thank you so much to the all the contributors, the editorial team, the reviewers and our editors for all the incredibly hard work that went into this issue!

We are very excited to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the JASAL 2017 Annual Conference which will be held on Saturday December 16, 2017 at Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan. We now have Call for Presentations ready at our Conference& Events website. We have our call for proposals available also in Japanese following the English version. We continue to welcome student presentations. Please submit your proposals here by Sunday, September 3 2017. The details of the conference including exact times and fee will be announced soon via website. We are looking forward to another fruitful JASAL conference!

Thank you to everyone who made the JASAL 2016 Conference at Konan Women’s University last Saturday (10th Dec 2016) such a success! It was great to see so many passionate and dedicated people, both from established and newer self-access centres, sharing ideas and making connections. We hope to see you all at more JASAL events in the future!

 

We will be adding photos and PDFs from the presentations to the conference page in the coming days, so watch this space.

The Japan Association for Self-Access Learning (JASAL) is very pleased to invite you to join the JASAL 2016 Annual Conference on Saturday, December 10, 2016 from 10:00-17:00 at Konan Women’s University in Kobe, Japan. This year we had a record number of submissions, and the 32 presentations chosen represent a variety of issues in self-access learning. We will also have a tour of e-space, the self-access center at Konan Women’s University. The Conference website is now open here.  To get a discount on registration fee please register here by November 30. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Kobe!

来る2016年12月10日（土）にセルフアクセスラーニング、自律学習教育に携わっている教育関係者が集い、各教育現場での斬新なアイデアや実践 報告、研究発表、ディスカッションなどを行う全国年次大会 JASAL Annual Conference 2016 を開催いたします。今年度は、前年度にない多数の発表応募をいただき、そのうち、32の発表が行われます。また、当日は、甲南女子大学のセルフアクセスセンターe-space の見学ツアーも行います。皆様のご参加を心より お待ち申し上げております。本年度は、日本語での発表や、学習者による発表もございます。

大会ホームページは こちらから。早期割引を適用するためには、11月30日までに こちらで参加登録ください。

We are very excited to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the JASAL 2016 Annual Conference which will be held on Saturday December 10, 2016 at Konan Women’s University in Kobe, Japan. We now have call for presentations ready at our Conference & Events website and as a PDF here. We also have our call for propsals available in Japanese as this year, we encourage more administrator participation and presentations. We would appreciate if you could pass these on to your colleagues. Please submit your proposal here by Saturday, September 10, 2016. We look forward to another fruitful JASAL conference!